Month: November 2015

AMS is providing a fast and cost effective IC prototyping service. by Clemens Valens @ elektormagazine.com: The Full Service Foundry division of ams AG announced its fast and cost-efficient IC prototyping service, known as Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) or shuttle run. The prototyping...

Factory tour video of the Teledyne LeCroy factory in in Chestnut Ridge, NY by Sebastian: Quick look both at & inside the brand new Tektronix TSG4106 6 GHz vector signal generator. They say real beauty lies on the inside and this beauty certainly measures up, inside and...

A thumb-sized, Particle-powered, Cloud-connected IoT board with Wi-Fi + BLE that supports Arduino, JavaScript and soon Python too! The Duo is a thumb-size development board designed to simplify the process of building Internet of Things (IoT) products. The Duo provides everything you...

Erica Torres @ edn.com discuss about lithium-air batteries that looks promising for future use. Although scientists are still working toward replacing lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries with lithium-air (Li-air), or lithium-oxygen, batteries, researchers at the University of Cambridge...

Here’s an alternative method for making PCB vias using conductive ink from Diyouware: We developed an alternative method for making PCB vias through-hole using our robot. As you probably know the traditional DIY method consists in threading a wire through the holes and then...

nitram147 @ instructables.com has build a ATmega based alarm clock with temperature and humidity reading. Sensor used is DHT11. First, let me introduce you my project. I made an Alarm clock with extended functionality & thermometer and humiditymeter. Everything started when my...

anistor @ instructables.com has build an ESP8266 based temperature monitor system using DS18B20 sensor. This project will help you create a temperature monitor using an ESP8266 SoC and a temperature sensor (DS18B20) with next capabilities: Measure Temperature Send an email if...

The HDC1050 from Texas Instruments is a tiny 3 mm square combined humidity and temperature sensor. It can operate from a supply rail of 3 to 5 V and offers an accuracy of ±3 % on relative humidity measurement and ±0.2 ºC on temperature measurements. The typical supply current is...